Craig Brown
Author
Language
English
Description
Some people want to take their secrets to the grave. On the Briscola coach to Albuquerque, that's just not possible.
"All manner of people ride a Briscola coach. Some travel toward dreams, others are escaping horrors, each carries their secrets and the belief that they harbour truths known only to themselves."
A Little Something To Hide is an exploration of the human condition. Every traveller on the Briscola Coach Service believes they're...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mixing parody, literary criticism, profiles, satire, light verse, anagrams, AND social observation, gathers together the finest examples of Craig Brown's writing across the past fifteen years. From Mary Berry's Household Tips to Robert Macfarlane's poetic prose, from profiles of such diverse figures as Sigmund Freud, John Stonehouse and Katie Price to parodies of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Mary Beard, and from appreciations of the Marx Brothers and Les Dawson...
Author
Language
English
Description
A witty and profound audiobook portrait of the most talked-about English royal.
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was madly in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. Princess Margaret aroused passion and...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
662 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deeply original, hilarious, and telling portrait of the Queen herself"-- Provided by publisher.
